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We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.
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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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